Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-07-23 | Page 36 | Philadelphia Millionaires on Transcontinental Tour; the Party Will Make a Three Day Stop in Salt Lake

PHILADELPHIA MILLIONAIRES ON TMNSCONTINENTAL TOUR; ' . m THE PARTY WILL MAKE A THREE DAYSTOPJN5AULAM 1 Members of the automobile commit tee of the Commercial club mot last, night and arranged for the reception ol the. "ocean to ocean" automobile party which is due to arrive at halt Lake Sunday evening. According to the plans outlined last nighty a party consisting of Mayor F. S.. Bransford, W. Mont Ferry, A. J. Davis, Chief ot Polico S M. Barlow and Frank Botteril Botter-il I will leave Suit Lake at 5:30 Sunday morning and meet the party of tourists somewhere in the vicinity of Lvanston. Carl R. Williams of tho Commercial club publicity bureau was in coiunni-nicntion coiunni-nicntion bv tolephono last night with G. S Spaulding ol nvnnston, wyo., rc-eardiug rc-eardiug the plans for piloting the party of tourists to Salt Lako and Mr Spaulding reported that the party had reached Kcuimerer late Saturday afternoon after-noon and would start for Salt Lake early Sunday morning. Mr. Spaulding will' meet the party somewhere between Evanston and Kemmeror and will come through to Salt Lake with thorn. Another partv of automobilists will leave the Commercial club at 10 o'clock Sundav morning with the intention ot meeting tho party in tho vicinity of Echo. This party will include Dr. A. C . Wherry, W. F. .1 onsen, Wesley h. King and Carl R. Williams. Mavor William Glasmann of Ogdcn and .iov JI. Johnson were in communication communi-cation "by telephone yesterdny afternoon after-noon una arrangements were made wherebv the Salt; Lake Commercial club was t0 notifv tho Weber club of Ogdcn of the hour that the party would leave Salt Lake on its westward journey Mayor Glasmann said that a party of automobilists would come to meet tho tourists at Salt Lako. At the meeting at the Commercial club last night, W. D. Rishel, referee at the Motordrome track, extended the invitation of the management to the tourist party to attend tho races Monday Mon-day evening. It is likely that tho entire en-tire partv will sco the races, providing provid-ing tho itinerary will permit them staying in Salt Lake until Tuesday morn ing. The latest report from the "ocean to ocean" party was to tho effect, that tho Morgan & Wright and Continental Continen-tal tires with which tho twelve cars are equipped wore, "burning up" the roads, or. Wvoming in satisfactory style. At'Julcsburg, Colo., Friday night. July Jl, the tourists received one of: the moatr rousing welcomes of the tour. They wore met by a suffragette brass band, the mayor and loading citizons, after they had boen accompanied from a distance by an escort of twenty cars. A large number of cowboys, many of whom were in their own cars, held the right lino in tho rocoption. Tho day's run was 170 miles and because of the change from the sand plains and bluffs of Nebraska to the old Oregon trail it. was one of the most interesting of the tour. Tho personnel of tho transcontinental party includes the following, nearly all of whom are millionaires; George C. Allen, president of tho Pic-public Pic-public Trust company, one of tho largest financial institutions of Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. In his car aro his family. P. 11. Lippincott, chairman of tho tourists' committee, of the famous Lippincott Lip-pincott familj-. He is cnthusastic anil believes tho trip will open up new means of travel. ..,, In the car with F. & Mollcr. son of a retired banker, ride two Amherst graduates. John IT. Murphy, one ot. Aew lork s city commissioner, pilots his big six-cylinder six-cylinder car. H O. Bechtel, justice or the supreme -court of the state of Pennsylvania, will spon'l hifJ vacation making tho tour. , ,. , , .. C G. A. Lodei who established the le"al status of the Sherman anti-trust aw believes the day -when occan-to-ocean touring will he common among automobilists, is close at hand. He, too holds tho steering wheel oyer his own m FrVineis .Tonkins, the Franklin institute in-stitute cold medalist, myentor of the moving-picture machine, has, rigged up one of the "movicson hi car and on his return -will show the nH dor what conditions the trip vtmW P. V. Baker, a prosporouiH broker, has cnnceloil a trip 'iimW accompany the tourists m 11 touring car. Ellsworth Sprague makes iH driver of the party. ActoiH these men arc their famfliMH number of friends. Hay MaH drives a pathfinding caVH will pick out tho route. andH a truck tn carry the bagijl Nmnaru will strew confetti way to maTk the road. BalH car- owners there are over forjjB